The grasp that reaches beyond the grave : the ancestral call in black women's texts /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patton, Venetria K., 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]
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505 0 |a Introduction: Revising the legacy of kinlessness through elders and ancestors -- Othermothers as elders and culture bearers in Daughters of the dust and The salt eaters -- Ancestral prodding in Praisesong for the widow -- Ancestral disturbances in Stigmata -- Beloved: a ghost story with an Ogbanje twist -- The child figure as a means to ancestral knowledge in Daughters of the dust and A Sunday in June. 
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